Wigan Warrriors Academy

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The Wigan Rugby League Academy is the academy team of Super League team Wigan Warriors. The Academy has produced many of the great players in both rugby league and rugby union. In 2005 the junior and senior Wigan Academy both finished top of their leagues and the senior academy also won their Grand Final beating the Leeds Rhinos academy.

Both the senior and junior sides play at Orrell R.U.F.C's Edge Hall Road ground in the Orrell area of Wigan.

1 Current Senior Academy Players
2 Current Junior Academy Players
3 Past Academy Players
4 Current Staff

[edit] Current Senior Academy Players

Player	Position	First Team Appearances
Andrew Thornley	Winger	0
Ben Kavanagh	Second Row	0
Darryl Kay	Second Row	0
David Small	Winger	0
Dean Hatton	Scrum Half	0
Eamon O'Carroll	Prop	0(6)
Earl Hurst		0
Lee Mossop	Second Row	0
Mark Brocklehurst	Winger/Full Back	0
Matthew Astley	Prop	0
Neil Holland	Second Row/Loose Forward/Prop	0
Nick Stanton		0
Ross Bradley	Centre	0
Sam Tomkins	Scrum Half	0
Thomas Brindle		0
John Walker	Centre	0
Thomas Coyle	Scrum Half	0
Sean Gleeson	Centre	4(3)
Mike McIlorum	Hooker	0
Gary Sykes		0
Joel Tomkins	Second Row	5(8)
Liam Colbon	Winger	4

[edit] Current Junior Academy Players

Player	Position	First Team Appearances
Adam Hunt		0
Darrell Goulding	Centre	9 (2)
Ben Davies		0
Brett Robinson		0
Chris Gerrard		0
Chris Mugan		0
Gerry Bridge		0
Josh Veivers	Full Back	0
Kyle Massam		0
Liam Farrell		0
Luke Rhoden		0
Matthew Lowe		0
Shaun Ainscough		0
Stuart Howarth		0
William Schofield		0
Craig Rennison		0

[edit] Past Academy Players

Player	Position	Current Club
Chris Ashton	Full Back	Wigan Warriors
Bryn Hargreaves	Prop	St Helens
Chris Melling	Full Back	Harlequins RFLC
Andrew Farrell	Loose Forward	Saracens F.C.
Kris Radlinski	Full Back	Retired
Gareth Hock	Second Row	Wigan Warriors
Sean O'Loughlin	Full Back	Wigan Warriors
David Allen	Second Row	Widnes Vikings
Chris Ashton	Full Back	Wigan Warriors
James Coyle	Scrum Half	Widnes Vikings
Bob Beswick	Hooker/Second Row	Widnes Vikings
Lee Jewitt	Second Row	Cronulla Sharks
Kevin Brown	Stand Off	Huddersfield Giants
Luke Robinson	Scrum Half	Salford City Reds
Martin Aspinwall	Centre/Winger	Huddersfield Giants
Steven Wild	Loose Forward	Huddersfield Giants